Agatha's Husband: A Novel, Volumen2Chapman and Hall, 1853 |
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... kind , and reverential always to the inane beauty . Such were Agatha's first impressions of her new sisters . With a shyness not un- natural she had taken little notice of her husband . He had chatted among his sisters , with whom he ...
... kind , and reverential always to the inane beauty . Such were Agatha's first impressions of her new sisters . With a shyness not un- natural she had taken little notice of her husband . He had chatted among his sisters , with whom he ...
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... kind . Then he shook hands with " " my son Nathanael , " and threw abroad ge- nerally a few ordinary remarks , to which his two daughters listened with great reverence . But in all he did or said was the same be- nignant hauteur ; he ...
... kind . Then he shook hands with " " my son Nathanael , " and threw abroad ge- nerally a few ordinary remarks , to which his two daughters listened with great reverence . But in all he did or said was the same be- nignant hauteur ; he ...
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... kind all round , and left them . " Shall I ride with you , father ? " said Nathanael , following him to the hall - door , with a concerned air . " Not to - day - I thank you ! Not to- day . " Mary and Eulalie looked at one another ...
... kind all round , and left them . " Shall I ride with you , father ? " said Nathanael , following him to the hall - door , with a concerned air . " Not to - day - I thank you ! Not to- day . " Mary and Eulalie looked at one another ...
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... kind- being busy laying their heads together over a newspaper - until Harrie very unceremo- niously began to pull at her husband's coat , which he bore for a time in perfect oblivi- ousness . At last he turned and patted her with his ...
... kind- being busy laying their heads together over a newspaper - until Harrie very unceremo- niously began to pull at her husband's coat , which he bore for a time in perfect oblivi- ousness . At last he turned and patted her with his ...
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... kind , who floated away like a flock of released birds , they all clustered around Anne , as though she were in the constant habit of knowing everybody's business , and of thinking and judging for everybody .. Agatha sat a little way ...
... kind , who floated away like a flock of released birds , they all clustered around Anne , as though she were in the constant habit of knowing everybody's business , and of thinking and judging for everybody .. Agatha sat a little way ...
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Página 105 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
Página 105 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints.
Página 52 - Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Página 102 - So faithful that she can see all his little faults — though she takes care no one else shall see them — yet would as soon think of loving him the less for these, as of ceasing to look up to heaven because there are a few clouds in the sky. So true and so fond, that she needs neither to vex him with her constancy nor burden him with her love, since both are self-existent, and entirely independent of anything he gives or takes away. Thus she will marry neither from liking, esteem, nor gratitude...
Página 101 - ... the other, and thus my beaux jours will pass away, and my Ideal Lover will not then think me worth his while. Shall I never be at rest with him to love and understand me, to tell every thought and feeling, in far different scenes from these — under canvas before Rangoon — anywhere in Nature ? " I would have every woman marry ; not merely liking a man well enough to accept him for a husband, as some of our mothers teach us, and so cause many unhappy marriages, but loving him so holily that,...